Catholic League Rebuttal
You printed a letter (Nov. 20, TV Times) from the Catholic League, which attempted to whitewash the history of Catholic destruction of American Indian culture. The writer asked you why your author (Wounded Knee--”Survival of the Spirit”) didn’t portray the good side of Christian-Indian interaction, and whether blacks and Jews are exempt from criticism.
The answer is that blacks and Jews did not have a program of slavery, cultural genocide, murder, forced religious conversion and violent parochial school indoctrination of Indians--white Christians did, and in much of the world today, they still do.
Jack L. Schwartz, Los Angeles (former staff attorney, American Indian Movement in Wounded Knee, S.D.)
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